MSNBC's David Shuster: Cut On The Bias

Howard Kurtz Wash Post: MSNBC's David Shuster is an aggressive career reporter who has never been positioned as one of the channel's left-leaning commentators. But in his "Hypocrisy Watch" segments this year, the conservative Media Research Center points out, 34 of the targets have been Republicans or conservatives -- including Rush Limbaugh twice and Karl Rove five times -- and only four have been Democrats or liberals.

Shuster says the group "is funded and run by die-hard conservatives with a clear partisan agenda" and that his work on the now-defunct program "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" "was hard hitting on both parties."

Uh, David "Chelsea Pimped Out" Schuster not "positioned" by MSNBC as a liberal wanker? Are Howard and Shuster spinning from a parallel universe? When did MSNBC start positioning bias?